That stoppage-time goal at Queens Park Rangers in 2012 changed everything for Sergio Aguero and Manchester City.
Ambedkar Jayanti: The Manu’s statue holding Manusmriti in Rajasthan High Court has since many protests since its installation in 1989.
Actor Vijay's film 'Beast' has hit theatres today, April 13. In order to celebrate the film's release, an electronics company in Erode district of Tamil Nadu...
The ridge now hosts statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Lala Lajpat Rai and a bust of Lt General Daulat Singh, the former general officer, commander-in-chief of the...
Ray made this film in 1980 as a sequel to 'Goopi Gayen, Bagha Bayen' (1969). It was his cinematic response to the Emergency in the garb of a children’s film.
Hollywood Celebs have always been honoured with public statues for their incredible contribution to creative arts by various countries. Here are some of the...
Mahatma Gandhi’s eight-foot-high statue, located in Manhattan’s Union Square, was defaced by some unknown persons, the Consulate General of India said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 216-foot tall statue, ‘Statue of Equality’ to honour 11th century Vaishnavaite saint Bhagavad Ramanujacharya in...
When Bhumihar Don Munna Shukla became an MLA, he installed a big statue of Maharana Pratap at one of the busiest crossroads in Lalganj, Vaishali — perhaps to...
With new statues being erected, and the old being vandalised, these sculptures have played a larger role in shaping the political discourses over the years.
In a contest of sorts, some recent announcements around statues show how each one is being built to be bigger than the other
The proposed statue of Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate is a ‘big idea’ whose time has come
Statue-building in post-colonial India has followed oppositional trajectories. While the State has tried to project Brahminical hegemony, the public has tried...
Dalits have crafted unique visual metaphors to assert their identity and mark their place in politics and BSP played a big role in the process.
Far from being about ‘art for art’s sake’, statues are instrument for revival of memory, or construction of new ones.
The statues mark a point of time; time removes them; the new statues represent some different ideology; common men and onlookers remain unchanged beyond their...
Why are some statues built and others defaced? Why does no one ever build the statue of a working class man? Why are female statues shaped for the male gaze?
Can public art in India, depicting admirable women from history and mythology, shed the male gaze?
An exclusive extract from Kajri Jain’s book, ‘Gods In The Time Of Democracy’
History has a serendipitous way of discarding statues that were once erected to project power and perpetuity
The world’s tallest statue, of Shivaji Maharaj, will be the jewel in Maximum City’s crown
From Ghulam Nabi Azad to Mehbooba Mufti, Valley leaders have invoked the Dogra rulers to win over Hindu-majority Jammu.
Even compared with the most abject annals of misgovernance in India, it’s hard to get worse than what happened in Panjim in the wake of Parrikar’s absence...
The move indicates that the government accepts the documented proof that the Britishers had to leave India due to Netaji and the Indian National Army.
Can cash-strapped governments like Madhya Pradesh afford to build statues? Why do India politicians make such a great deal about erecting statues?
